Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the availability of covid-19 lateral flow tests (a) ordered through the gov.uk website and (b) collected at pharmacies, supermarkets and other venues.

We are working to ensure that people across the country can access lateral flow tests. The UK Health Security Agency has increased both the supply of tests and distribution capability. We have increased home delivery channel capacity to 7 million tests every day and record numbers of test kits are going to pharmacies across the country, over 16 million tests were delivered last week. 90 million lateral flow tests are expected to be distributed each week for the next few weeks.